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Enlightenment: Theories of Childhood

Enlightenment: Theories of Childhood. Locke, Rousseau, and Dwight. I. Enlightenment Overview. Interest in Natural World God as “divine watchmaker” Reason/Rationality (“Age of Reason”) Order (in universe, natural laws, human nature) Secularization of politics/education/science.

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Enlightenment: Theories of Childhood

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  1. Enlightenment: Theories of Childhood Locke, Rousseau, and Dwight

  2. I. Enlightenment Overview • Interest in Natural World • God as “divine watchmaker” • Reason/Rationality (“Age of Reason”) • Order (in universe, natural laws, human nature) • Secularization of politics/education/science.

  3. II) John Locke, 1632-1704

  4. Locke • Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) • Secular Puritan • Children born neither good nor bad

  5. III) Jean Jacque Rousseau, 1712-1778

  6. Rousseau • Emile, or On Education • Nature (“God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.”) • Children Naturally Good • Will Provides Motivation • “Feral Children” Victor the “Wolf Boy”—France, 1798

  7. IV) Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817

  8. Dwight • Second Great Awakening • Grace as Motivator • Unitarians • Romantic Movement • Bronson Alcott

  9. Victor, the “wolf boy,” ca. 1786-1828

  10. Other “feral children”

  11. Camp Meeting

  12. Second Great Awakening hysteria

  13. Bronson Alcott

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